gnawer

English

Etymology

gnaw +‎ -er

Noun

gnawer (plural gnawers)

1. One who gnaws.
   1. A rodent or other animal that gnaws.
      • 1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, Chapter 7, [1]

        South America is characterized by possessing many peculiar gnawers […] .

      • 1947, Lloyd Glenn Ingles, Mammals of California, Stanford University Press, p. 182, [2]

        The Norway Rat is a good digger and a superb gnawer.

Translations

rodent or other animal that gnaws

• Bulgarian: гризач (bg) m (grizač)
• Danish: gnaver (da) c
• Dutch: knaagdier (nl) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: глодар m

  Roman: glodar m

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• Swedish: gnagare (sv) c

Anagrams

• Wagner, wanger